OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 9, 2003
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: November 27, 1974
• Content Type: NOTES

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Wednesday - 27 November 1974
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1. Delivered to the office of Senator Sam Nunn
(D. , Ga.) the Directors letter to the Senator concerning the application of
2. I Delivered to the office of Representative
James W. Symington (D. , o. a package for Tom Ernst, Legislative
Assistant, containing a Pravda article which he had requested and a copy of
the unclassified study entitled "World Opium Survey, 1972" for his information.
OCI, is continuing to attempt to locate a second article
requested by Ernst (see Journal, 19 November, Item 9).
3. Had a chance meeting with Ron Tammen,
Legislative Assistant, office of Senator William Proxmire (D., Wisc.), on
the Hill. Tamme.n brought up the subject of standing for congressmen, which
I had discussed yesterday with Charles Platt (see Journal, 26 November,
Item 11). Tammen informed me that Proxmire felt his responsibilities were
to pursue issues as he saw them on the floor of the Congress and not in the
courts, and that Proxmire would probably continue to challenge CIA budgetary
arrangements on the floor but was not inclined to pursue the matter in the
courts.
4. 1 ) Met with Ralph Preston, House Appropriations
Committee staff, and received rom him a copy of the prepared statement for
the briefing this morning with the Director. Preston apologized that the format
outlined in the prepared statement was prepared by the Chairman late last evening.
5. In response to his call, I met with Herb Roback,
Staff Director, House Government Operations Committee, and reviewed with him
a letter forwarded to Chairman Chet Holifield (D. , Calif. ) from Representative
STATOTHR Phillip Burton (D. , Calif. ). The letter was from a constituent,
STATOTHR f San Francisco, California, regarding CIA. activities in Northern
Ireland. Rather than respond in writing Roback asked that I talk to Burton's
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6. Met with Joseph A. O'Connell, Assistant
to Representative Phillip Burton (D. , Calif. ), and reviewed with him the
correspondence from a constituent, of San Francisco,
California. O'Connell told me that his own investigation indicated that
The Advocate has been agitating Irish Americans on this general subject.
He will file the correspondence.
7. Met with Mrs. Fraser, Administrative
Assistant to Representative Donald M. Fraser (D. , Minn. ), as a follow up
to my earlier conversations with her. Mrs. Fraser asked if I would stop
by at my convenience and talk to John Salzburg, on the Representative's
staff, who is now away for the holidays, concerning the constituent request
on information regarding supposed CIA activities in Northern Ireland.
8, Met with William H. Hogan, Counsel,
Intelligence Subcommittee, House Armed Services Committee, and returned
to him the transcript of 22 July 1974 on the Subcommittee's hearings on
H. R. 15845.
I also closed out with Hogan his request for information for use
.by Chairman Nedzi in responding to a query from the National Association
for Irish Freedom and a third letter from John O'Sullivan, Chairman,
Civil Rights Committee, National Council of Irish Americans. I also gave
Hogan a set of background information for his use in these replies.
In meeting with Hogan, he told me that he was momentarily
expecting a call from the court in the Haldeman case requesting the transcripts
of the Haldeman and Ehrlichman testimony before the Subcommittee. After
checking with Messrs. I I arrangements were made to
deliver the 7 June 1973 Haldeman transcript and the 13 June 1973 Ehrlichman
transcript to Hogan today.
9. alked to Norvill Jones, Senate Foreign Relations
Committee staff, who told me he will be travelling to China leaving about
6 December. He is not free to disclose who he will be travelling with at
this time. After checking with I OCI, a briefing on China was
scheduled for 2:30 p.m. , Monday, 2 December. F -I has been
10. I Accompanied , OMS,
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Clement J. Za oc i . , is, or a ebriefing on Zablocki's recent trip
to China. Representative Zablocki was very pleased to meet with the group
and was quite forthcoming in response to questioning. There are no follow ups
from to day's de b SSr ief ing.
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11. Talked to Bill Van Ness, Chief Counsel,
Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, with regard to the
questions raised by Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (D. , Ohio). In brief,
Van Ness suggested the Agency might either have someone standby to
testify in executive session or the Agency could respond to questions to
Van Ness himself so that he in'turn could respond in executive session.
I told Van Ness that I was sure we would much prefer the latter course
of providing the information to him for use in executive session. See
Mr. Gary's journal item.
12. I Met with Roger Mott, Special Assistant
to Representative Samuel S. Stratton (D. , N. Y. ), and reviewed with him
the correspondence from John O'Sullivan, Chairman, Civil Rights
Committee, National Council of Irish Americans, and briefed him on the
background of. this case. Mott will file the correspondence. If any further
information is desired by Representative Stratton, Mott will call me.
13. alked to George Berdes, on the staff of
the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments,
House Foreign Affairs Committee, and after checking with Mr. Duckett's
secretary, scheduled a briefing for Wednesday, 11 December, at 10:00 a. m.
on SALT violations and agreements.
14. Accompanied the Director and Messrs.
Nelson an to a briefing of the House Appropriations Committee
Special Group. See Memorandum for Record for details.
15. et with Representative Chet Holifield to
tell him how much we appreciated the support which he and Representatives
John N. Erlenborn and William S. Moorhead had given us in fighting
Representative Bella Abzug's proposed amendment to abolish the CIA
exemption from the Right of Privacy legislation (see Memo for Record).
16. I I Attempted to see Representatives John
Erle:nborn and William Moorhead but they had left town for the holiday and
I will try to reach them on Monday.
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17. I I Met with Representative Albert Quie to
discuss his letter to the Director asking for comments on a letter the
Congressman had received from
Minnesota, regardin allegations of CIA involvement in activities in
Northern Ireland.
in the coup in Chile and the statement to that effect was still accurate. We
discussed the possibility of his getting a copy of Chairman Nedzi's response
to the similar inquiry which might have been useful to him in replying to
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reluctance to give him an unclassified denial of this allegation, which he
could appreciate. He added, however, that he had gotten in a jam in his
district in denying Agency involvement in Chile, later to find that in fact
we were. He said he had relied on assurances from someone (not from the
Agency). I made it clear to the Congressman that the Agency was not involved
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19. Dropped by to see Mike Rexroad, Senate
Appropriations Committee staff, to see if there was any feedback from the
Director's letter to Chairman John L. McClellan on the subject of the
Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean/Diego Garcia. Rexroad said they
had received the Director's letter during the Committee meeting on Tuesday,
apparently without any real reaction. Rexroad did indicate, however '
that Secretary Schlesi:nger's numerous calls to members of the Committee
had brought a rather negative reaction, that the question was going to be
put up to the full Senate, and he felt that funds for Diego Garcia would be
voted down.
20. Received a call from
PFIAB staff, who said at Governor Rockefeller ac peen in con ac
with them to refresh his memor on what was covered at the 3 and 4 December
indicated that their records reflected
1970 PFIAB briefing.-on- Chile. on
that it was basically a post mortem of developments in Chile (which would
be consistent with the dates of the briefing) and in response to his request
I said we would review our records to determine if they disclose anything
different. F7 I IC staff, has been advised.
21. Advised Jim Oliver, OMB, of the
Agency decision to proceed wi the adoption for CIARDS of the funding
arrangements made for Civil Service and Foreign Service retirement systems.
The catch up amendments to Civil Service benefits have been captive to
movement on the funding issue for far too long and we hope for a quick clearance
from OMB. In response to his query, I said I thought we had some flexibility
in establishing the effective date of the funding provision to coincide with
budget submissions (Oliver favors a delay until FY 77) but such a decision
must be made in the light of the status of the funds. I then advised
OF, of this conversation and he is reviewing the matter.
22, Met with SPS/DDS&T, who
advised of a p g of Representative Thomas Rees (D. , Calif. ).
See note in file.
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Edward M. Kennedy (D., Mass.),
James L. Buckley (R., N.Y.), Mike Mansfield (D., Mont.), William V.
Roth, Jr. (R., Del.), James A. M 'Clare (R., Idaho) and Representative
STATSPEC Leo J. Ryan (D., Cali which their names were mentioned.
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24. Stopped by the Senate Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee o: ices an e a map of the Philippines for
Dr. Arlon Tussing of the staff per the request of his secretary Joan Diamond.
25. As a follow-up to several telephone
conversations betweeni and George Murphy, Deputy Director,
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, provided Murph with a blind memo
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Service which resulted in the expulsion of a number of Polish intelligence
officers.
26. I I Received a call from Adam Stolpen,
on the staff of Senator Edward J. Gurney (R., Fla.), who asked for informa-
tion on Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmena, III, who were imprisoned
by the Administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972.
After conferring with OCI, I briefed Stolpen on the current
status but advised him that this was really a matter for the State Department
and not us. Stolpen replied that he had already tried that Department
but without receiving any information.
27.1 Returned to William Hogan, Counsel,
House Armed Services Committee, transcripts of testimony of John Ehrlichman
and Robert Haldeman before the House Armed Services Committee.
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28. I (Received a call from Dick Kennedy, White
House staff, regarding the amYIe_.Lm rents in the Foreign Assistance bill
concerning the reports to Congress on covert activities. See Memo for
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